I know I am a few weeks behind in posts - hence the Halloween pictures!
This was our first year of having two Halloween parties at different places. The morning started out at Brody's school for his party. He was so excited to have us to his room and it was a lot of fun to see how he interacted with all of this friends.
This is his class. The little girl in the front row, second from the right, is Dawn - Brody's "girlfriend".
It's so neat to see how much work he has done this year. Above is his locker and the cat that he decorated. He had to tell his teacher three things about the picture and then trace the words. Below is the "monster" that he made.
They had a parade through the school to show their costumes off to the older kids.
Then we sat down to decorate some pumpkins and cookies.
On Halloween night Bobo and Grandma came to visit. The kids had a lot of fun "riding" them around the house.
I think Bobo and Grandma had a lot of time running around too!
On Halloween night Addisen came up with her crazy face - she hasn't forgotten it. We were reading a book tonight that asked for your silly face and she still remembered it!
Here is our Batman and Lion before we went out Trick or Treating. It was a rainy and cold night here, so we just stuck close to home. The kids were not short on candy - our neighbors ended up having to go out of town so they gave each of them a whole bag of candy!
Addisen keeps us laughing! She loves to dress up in things - her winter hat and gloves, goggles, cowboy hats - she is always entertaining us!
We have so much to be thankful for this year. I never dreamed that I wold be sitting here on this Thanksgiving Eve with another little baby growing inside me. It was something I really wanted, but truly thought that Jim had decided we were done. We had our 28 week ultrasound about a week ago to check and make sure everything had formed correctly with the baby's heart. At 20 weeks, the baby just wouldn't stop moving, so they were unable to see the blood flow to/from. We were so happy to know that everything was perfect. Jim was even able to be there with me to see how much bigger the baby is at 28 weeks (he wasn't able to go to Addisen's 28 weeks ultrasound). Unfortunately they did not take any measurements of the baby, so we have no idea how it compares with how big Addisen was at this time. The baby's heartrate was 140 during the ultrasound - making me wonder if it is a boy. The ultrasound tech has asked if we knew what we were having this time - just by her asking, made me think it was a boy too - I thought that she must have seen some parts or something to make her ask! My doctor said that everything looked good so far, and that things were right on track. Around Christmas she will start to monitor me to make sure it doesn't look like this baby will come early - I really hope things continue to go perfectly - I can't imagine having to go on bedrest - and I'm not sure Jim could imagine taking care of EVERYTHING for weeks before the baby came!
Last week we also had Brody's first Parent-Teacher Conference. I was so proud to hear his teacher say that he has a good heart. She said he doesn't like to color or draw too much, and during those times has a hard time keeping on track. He is so bright though - she said that he loves to find patterns and work in the other areas of the classroom. I have been surprised by how honest he is with us each day. They have a red/yellow/green system at school to show how well you listen during the day. Brody always comes off the bus and either tells Jim or I if he ended up on the yellow that day - he really does well most days - until this week of course. We had told him last week that if he stayed in the green for the week he could go see the movie "Wreck it Ralph" with Jim on Friday. We made it until Thursday - and then he told us he was on yellow. So we said if you can stay green on Monday and Tuesday this week then they could go today - he was on yellow on Monday - maybe we shouldn't offer rewards :)
We hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving. We wish that we were able to spend it with all of our family this year! Somehow we have to figure out how to get Pennsylvania and Michigan closer together!
